Handshake

Handshake is dedicated to helping students launch a career with no connections, experience, or luck required. Handshake’s community includes 21 million students and alumni around the world from 1,400 educational institutions.

The platform connects up-and-coming talent with 650,000+ employers - from Fortune 500 companies like Google and Nike, to thousands of organisations in the education, not-for-profit, and even sports sectors.

Handshake regularly conducts research into the priorities and challenges faced by university careers professionals, students and employers, working alongside partners and experts in each sector.

Its team of expert commentators also regularly share their views on topics like improving collaboration between the various groups in the early careers sector, levelling the playing field for students and graduates from all backgrounds, and the role that technology can play in helping navigate the world of careers post-Covid.